. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 190 ARCTIAD^. 11 slightly anastomosing with S, 9 to form a large areole; the medial area on inulcrside iiccii)iif(l l),v n large patch of andrueonia, the costa fringed with short hair below. Hind w"ing ample, longer than fore wing ; vein 2 from well before angle of cell; y, 4 coincident ; .'» absent; (i, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell, curved ; the costa fringed with long hair. 3SS. Disaulota leptalina. Areca leptalina, Druco, Biol. , Het. i. p. 133, pi. 13. f. 5 (1885); Kirbv, Cat. Ilet. p. 338. cJ,
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 190 ARCTIAD^. 11 slightly anastomosing with S, 9 to form a large areole; the medial area on inulcrside iiccii)iif(l l),v n large patch of andrueonia, the costa fringed with short hair below. Hind w"ing ample, longer than fore wing ; vein 2 from well before angle of cell; y, 4 coincident ; .'» absent; (i, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell, curved ; the costa fringed with long hair. 3SS. Disaulota leptalina. Areca leptalina, Druco, Biol. , Het. i. p. 133, pi. 13. f. 5 (1885); Kirbv, Cat. Ilet. p. 338. cJ, "White; head and thorax tinged with i)urplish fuscous; (abdomen wanting). Fore wing with some purplish fuscous on. Fig. lOi'.—Disaulota leptalina, cJ. }. costa and at base of inner margin; the whole medial area suffused with purplish fuscous, extending on inner area to tornus. Hind wing with some fuscous grey on termen below middle. Hah. Costa Eica, Cache {Rogers), 1 c? type, Salvin-Godman Coll. Ex]i. 40 millim. Genus MACROPTILA. Type. Macroptila, Dognin, Ann. Soe. Ent. Beige, xsxviii. p. 129 (1894)... erinada. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head and clothed with downturned hairs; antenna: of male with bristles and cilia; tibias with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing long and narrow; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 shortly stalked; 7 stalked with 8, 9 ; 11 curved and becoming coincident with 12 ; male with the costa fringed with short hair below. Hind wing very ample ; vein 2 from middle of cell; 3 from close to angle; 4, 5 stalked; 6, 7 stalked; 8 from middle of cell. Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 6 from well below angle of cell; 7 shortly stalked with 8, 9; 10 free; male with a fringe of very long hair in cell above median nervure; hind wing with a large patch of andi'oconia below the costa beyond middle. 389, Macroptila erinada. Macroptila erinada, Dognin, Ann. Soe. Ent
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